Synonyms for mistress
ˈmɪs trɪsmis·tress

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1. mistressnoun

   Synonyms:
   comaré, fancy woman, head, bit on the side, schoolmarm, leader, goomah, boss

2. mistressnoun

   a woman, specifically one with control, authority or ownership

   She was the mistress of the mansion, and owned the horses.

   Synonyms:
   comaré, schoolmarm, leader, boss, fancy woman, bit on the side, goomah, head

3. mistressnoun

   a female teacher

   games mistress

   Synonyms:
   leader, boss, goomah, fancy woman, bit on the side, head, comaré, schoolmarm

4. mistressnoun

   a female partner in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

   Synonyms:
   bit on the side, leader, schoolmarm, goomah, boss, fancy woman, comaré, head

5. mistressnoun

   a dominatrix

   Synonyms:
   comaré, head, boss, goomah, bit on the side, schoolmarm, fancy woman, leader

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mistress, kept woman, fancy womannoun

   an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

   Synonyms:
   cocotte, lady of pleasure, working girl, fancy woman, prostitute, whore, woman of the street, cyprian, schoolmistress, kept woman, sporting lady, tart, bawd, schoolmarm, harlot, schoolma'am

2. schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistressnoun

   a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

   Synonyms:
   schoolma'am, schoolmistress, schoolmarm, fancy woman, kept woman

3. mistressnoun

   a woman master who directs the work of others

   Synonyms:
   schoolmarm, schoolmistress, schoolma'am, fancy woman, kept woman

Matched Categories

1. • Employer
   • Lover
   • Schoolteacher
   • Woman

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mistressnoun

   Synonyms:
   female head, female sovereign

2. mistressnoun

   Synonyms:
   instructress, female teacher

3. mistressnoun

   Synonyms:
   sweetheart, flame, doxy

4. mistressnoun

   Synonyms:
   concubine, paramour

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mistressnoun

   Synonyms:
   matron, superior, sweetheart, flame, dulcinea, ladylove, amaryllis, paramour, concubine, demirep, lorette, delilah, phryne, corotte

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "mistress":

   lover, domina, master, teacher, concubine, lady, affair

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How to use mistress in a sentence?

1. Ambrose Bierce:

   Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

2. John Constable:

   Landscape is my mistress - t'is to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to man

3. Teresa Taylor:

   I truly loved and cared for him. I was 19.I didn’t even know the word mistress, i actually believed he would leave his wife for me but they never leave.

4. William Hazlitt:

   We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

5. Charles Caleb Colton:

   Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.